7 Oct
1999
7 Oct
'99
6:52 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
How big is that thing?
It is about 3/4 the size of standard PC tower and it is about 3/4 the thickness of
a PC. So, it isnt terribly big. The picture shows four xplorers. I only have one
of those boxes. You can hook up others to build a larger parallel computer. It
has a fixed 4x4 grid topology. Actually, the picture is really the power xplorer,
but it looks the same as the xplorer. The power explorer has 4 PowerPC chips in it
with 4 transputers as communication harnesses for the PowerPCs. The xplorer was
phased out in favor of the PowerPC a while back.
Ram
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I havent
opened it up or even given a good look at it. It is pretty funny
looking though. It has 16 T805-30Mhz transputers with 4Megs per node in it.
The thing gets pretty hot, so the sides of the chasis has two big heat sinks.
Take a look at this picture:
I prematurely send the email. Here is a picture of the xplorer:
http://www.thenet.ch/tntech/xplbig.gif 